Region restrictions on DVDs serve no one's interests by greedy studios. Why shouldn't I be able to play an Indian DVD on my American DVD player? Or take my DVDs with me to play on my British cousin's DVD player? Ridiculous! If you want to end the tyranny of DVD region encoding, check out "How to make your DVD-ROM region free", which will walk you through the process. Just be careful: if you brick your DVD player, don't blame me, OK?

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